$LAVA $Q $MOCA Airdrops

️ On today's Top Picks:

Crypto News

• ⭐️ Polychain alleges ex-employee Niraj Pant secretly made token deal with Eclipse Labs.

• German Government now only holds ~$785M of Bitcoin $BTC after selling ~75% in the past several days.

• Golem deposits another ~$133M of Ethereum $ETH to exchanges.

• Multichain Foundation ordered to pay Fantom Foundation $2.18M for hack losses.

• Malaysian Government reveals illegal crypto miners stole $722M of electricity.

Alpha

• Blast launches Phase 2 Gold Distribution 1 with 10M Gold.

• ⭐️ Mind Network launches Alpha Mainnet allowing users to earn Mind XP for staking.

• Caldera launches Caldera Crusade Soulbound NFT claim on Galxe.

• Squid launches Squid School & celebratory Squid Scholar NFT on Farcaster.

Airdrops

• Mitosis Airdrop Strategy by Earndrop.

• ICYMI Weekly Claims, Checkers & News by Earndrop.

• ⭐️ Lava launches $LAVA Airdrop eligibility & allocation checker.

• ⭐️ Q Blockchain launches $Q Airdrop eligibility checker.

• ⭐️ Mocaverse launches $MOCA Airdrop eligibility & allocation checker.

• Kroma unveils surprise airdrop for Kroma NFT holders.

Finance News

• Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell states more data is necessary before cutting rates.

• ⭐️ US to release June CPI on July 11th & June PPI on July 12th.

• Goldman Sachs $GS to launch 3 tokenization projects this year.

• Hut 8 $HUT to purchase 205-megawatt site in Texas.

• China's June CPI rises by 0.2%, missing expectations for a 0.4% increase.

• Microsoft $MSFT to drop observer seat on OpenAI board amid regulatory scrutiny.

Security and Exploits

• SlowMist Weekly Security Report highlights ~$9M in losses.

• Microsoft releases Windows July security update patching 143 flaws.

• GitLab warns of critical vulnerability allowing attackers to run pipeline jobs as any other user.

Token Unlocks

• dYdX / 1.55M $DYDX / ~$2M / JUL 09
• Moonbeam / 3.04M $GLMR / ~$592K / JUL 11
• IO / 2.11M $IO / ~$4.9M / JUL 11
• Immutable / 32.47M $IMX / ~$41.2M / JUL 12
• Aptos / 11.31M $APT / ~$68M / JUL 12
• Ethena / 14.89M $ENA / ~$6.3M / JUL 14
• Optimism / 10M $OP / ~$16.2M / JUL 15
• Starknet / 64M $STRK / ~$38.6M / JUL 15
• Cyber / 886.12K $CYBER / ~$3.8M / JUL 15

Funding

• ICYMI Fundraising: Last Several Days in Crypto by AlphaPacked.

• Rome, a modularized Solana consensus infrastructure, raises $9M in funding.

• ⭐️ Dora, a multichain block explorer, raises $5.5M in funding led by Lemniscap & Dragonfly.

• Term Finance, a fixed-rate lending via on-chain auctions protocol, raises $5.5M in Strategic funding led by Electric Capital.

• idOS, an identity layer of web3, raises $4.5M in funding led by Fabric Ventures.

• TreadFi, an algorithmic crypto trading platform, raises $3.5M in Pre-Seed funding led by New Form Capital.

• Kulipa, a crypto payment startup, raises $3M in Seed funding co-led by Fabric Ventures & White Star Capital.

• Idle Finance, onchain credit & yield platform, raises $2.4M in Strategic funding led by RockawayX

• Satoshi Protocol, a universal stablecoin backed by Bitcoin, raises $2M in Seed funding led by CMS Holdings & RockTree Capital.

• ThirdFi, a modular AI for DeFi, raises $2M in funding.

• BOB, a hybrid L2 connecting Bitcoin security with EVM liquidity, raises $1.6M in Strategic funding led by Ledger Ventures.

• Demether, a DeFi protocol which unifies and mobilizes capital, raises an undisclosed amount in Angel funding.

The Degen Farmer